Linda: 7121 books
Titanic
Das Schiff, der Untergang, die Legenden
Language: German
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Linda Maria Koldau rollt in ihrem glänzend geschriebenen Buch den Fall „Titanic“ neu auf. Sie erklärt anschaulich, was wir über den Luxusdampfer, seine Passagiere, die Umstände des Untergangs und das Wrack wissen und macht deutlich, warum die Katastrophe so viele anrührende Geschichten rund...
Expedition ins Leben
Eine Familie auf Langzeitreise durch die USA und Kanada
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Linda Klein und ihr Ehemann Matthias sind beide reisebegeistert. Mehrfach sind sie "Aussteiger auf Zeit" und leben ihren Traum von Freiheit und Abenteuer. Schwanger zurück aus Neuseeland, werden sie wieder in ihrer Heimat, dem Hunsrück, sesshaft. Sie bekommen zwei Kinder und natürlich wollen sie...
Elles étaient seize
Les premières femmes journalistes au Canada
Language: French
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Seize journalistes canadiennes, à l’été 1904, font le voyage en train pour visiter la Foire universelle de Saint-Louis. Au cours de ces dix jours riches en péripéties, elles fondent le Canadian Women’s Press Club (CWPC), premier du genre au pays. S’appuyant sur des lettres et des entrevues,...
by Linda Goyette
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Novembre 1979. Linda Goyette, une jeune mariée de 18 ans, vit dans la région de l’Estrie avec son conjoint. Un soir, alors qu’elle est seule dans son appartement, elle est victime d’enlèvement, de séquestration, de menaces de mort et d’agression sexuelle. Heureusement, son assaillant est...
by Linda Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
ABUSED. BROKEN. DETERMINED.
Linda's story began in the dirty cobbled streets of Adana, Turkey in 1992. She faced years of sexual abuse, physical abuse, homelessness, and tragic child loss. She suffered from crippling depression, anxiety, and suicidal tendencies her whole life.
Determined...
Blind Courage
The Story of My Father, David Ronald Johnston 1924-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
As a small boy in the 1920s, David Ronald Johnston was blinded when a dental procedure went horribly wrong. That did not stop him living a remarkably full life, qualifying as a top-level shorthand typist, becoming a personal secretary and then going on to take increasingly senior positions in the charity...
Morning Glory
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz.
The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother,...
Deadheads
Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“One of the best books on the Grateful Dead” (Rolling Stone).
Just what was it about the Grateful Dead that inspired such devotion? In Deadheads, those who were there, and are still listening to the music, explain it all.
Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow talks about his lifelong...
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
A Woman in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived...
Beatrix Potter
A Life in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic relationship with her publisher, Norman Warne, and...
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
Becoming Justice Blackmun
Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court chronicles the personal transformation of a legendary justice
From 1970 to 1994, Justice Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) wrote numerous landmark Supreme Court decisions, including...
Tooth and Nail
The Making of a Female Fight Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A Boston Globe Best Sports Book of 2018
A fearless and exhilarating memoir of a surgeon who became one of the first female ringside boxing doctors in New York City, for fans of Judy Melinek, Pauline Chen and Atul Gawande
Fresh out of medical school, Linda Dahl began her surgical residency...
Karla Faye Tucker Set Free
Life and Faith on Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This gripping story about the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years draws on accounts from family, prisoners, government officials, and friends to show how God used a remarkable woman to reach countless lives with a message of redemption and joy. Linda Strom, Tucker's spiritual advisor...